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We thank everyone for joining us for our first Small Business meeting of 2020. I want to especially thank the witnesses for taking the time to travel from across the country and take time away from their businesses to have this important discussion. There will be members coming and going or overlapping hearings with other committees. Youll see folks, and we ask for your patience with that as well. Farming and agriculture are at the heart of strong economies around the country. It is crucial to i...

President bleiman hello and welcome to the march 3, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission. My name is ben bleiman, and i am the president of the commission. If you want to speak on Public Comment, you need to fill out a speaker card or you can just come to the podium when its Public Comment. I want to thank sfgovtv and Media Services for sharing this media with the public, and well start with roll call. [roll call] president bleiman all right. Thank you. The first order of b...

Chair ronen good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Good morning and welcome to the february 24, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. Seated to my left is supervisor gordon mar. Seating to my left for supervisor Catherine Stefani is matt haney. Our clerk is gordon an youyoun id like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence all phones and electr electron electronic devices. Items acted upon will appear on the board of supervisors agenda...

Watch tonight beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. Ahead of South Carolinas democratic president ial primary, former Vice President joe biden received the endorsement of congressman jim clyburn, the third highest ranking democrat in the house of representatives. There are 54 delegates at stake in South Carolina. A recent poll from Clemson University shows the former Vice President with a double digit lead over his closest opponent. Let me thank all of you for joining us here this morning. ...

A significant drop in new Coronavirus Infection to me breaks a piece and province. And business groups in canada want the government to stop a protest which is shut down the Railway System over a controversial pipeline. Nowhere is safe for civilians in the province that was the message at the United Nations as the Security Council met for a briefing on syria the u. N. Says almost a 1000000 people have fled since the start of december thats the biggest displacement in the nearly 9 years long conf...

My familys starts in mexico in a small town. My parents are from a very, very small town. So small, that my dads brother is married to one of my moms sisters. Its that small. A lot of folks from that town are here in the city. Like most immigrant families, my parents wanted a better life for us. My dad came out here first. I think i was almost twoyearsold when he sent for us. My mom and myself came out here. We moved to San Francisco early on. In the Mission District and moved out to daily city ...

Heres the hour and 40minute hearing. Good morning. Come to order. We thank everyone for joining us this morning. We want to thank the witnesses for taking the time to travel across the country and take time away from their businesses in some instances to have this important discussion. As is the case with these hearings, there will be members coming and going. There are overlapping hearings in other committees so youll see folks come and go throughout and ask questions. We just bear ask your you...

Technology on farming. We heard about innovations and how federal policy including rural access to Broadband Internet can help in the development of agriculture. Good morning. We thank everyone for joining us this morning for our first Small Business Committee Hearing of 2020. I want to especially thank the witnesses for taking the time to travel across the country and take time away from their businesses in some instances to have this important question. As is the case with these hearings, ther...

This hearing will come to order. This morning well consider the nominations of the honorable shelton to be a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system and dr. Hristopher waller to be a member of the board of governors system. Federal reserve welcome and congratulations to each of you for your nominations. Family in the nd room today and i welcome them as well. Were fortunate to have these two highly qualified nominees today. Ng these positions are critical to nsuring a safe,...

Let me thank all of you for joining us here this morning. I particularly would like to thank my colleague from texas who was my classmate in the congress. We first met that the Democratic National convention in 1972. We have maintained a friendship. We had no idea that they would end up getting elected to congress the same year and i owe a great deal to her. I thank her so much for being here today. Several other of our colleagues wanted to join us today but when we decide to make this announcem...